Gigi Hadid's Attacker Says He Did It for "High Fashion," but We're Not Buying It

The biggest story to come out of Milan Fashion Week is undoubtedly an incident where Gigi Hadid elbowed a man in the face after he grabbed her from behind and picked her up. Another way to phrase that could be"after he attacked her" or "after he assaulted her" because it is never, ever OK to physically restrain another person like that without their consent, let alone a perfect stranger.

The incident brought up many questions: Where the eff were her bodyguards? How can I sign up for Gigi's self-defense class? Who on earth is this dude?

Um, are you kidding me? First of all, NO. No, you don't get to use women as props in your "protests." You don't get to violate someone's personal space and physical safety because you don't like a particular model. And, dude, we really don't need you to point out that Gigi is "beautiful"—anyone with eyes can see that and no one asked you anyway.

His other arguments don't make sense either. He says Vogue is a tabloid because it puts celebrities on its cover? Right, because otherwise that issue would have featured...only a neurosurgeon and a poet? People need to leave Anna Wintour alone.

And what, exactly, is the difference between a "true talent" on the runway and the Kendall Jenners of the world, anyway? I can't believe I have to spell this out, but the job of a model is to wear the clothes and make the clothes look desirable and walk well in the clothes and take really good pictures that people like to look at. Kendall, Gigi, and Bella Hadid do those things. So what if they come from wealthy and/or famous families?

And the greatest irony—or maybe the twist you definitely saw coming—here is that Sediuk himself seems to be pretty desperate for Instagram celebrity. His feed is almost all selfies #hashtagged with phrases to get him attention from the fashion community. Heposeswithcelebrities and triestopositionhimselfasa "street style" tastemakeror "reporter", yet can't stand it when one of Milan's many tiny side streets is blocked off for the protection of celebrities attending MFW. (Sediuk's stunt is a really good example of why those protections are necessary, but maybe logic isn't this guy's forté.)

Certainly Sediuk is something of an anomaly in how far he's willing to go for his beliefs, if you can even call what he did that. But his line of reasoning—that his personal opinions trump others' right to get through their day in peace—is all too common among, well, entitled men. And it has to stop. What Sediuk did isn't funny or edgy or counter-culture or even controversial.

No, I'm not going to call it a manifest or protest as he helpfully suggested (before adding hashtags, just to make sure everyone gave him as much attention as possible which, arguably, I am buying into at this very moment). I'm going to call it what it was: some creepy loser looking for a minute of attention from a pretty girl.